Museum of Kindness has just been shortlisted for the Quebec Writers’ Federation A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry, along with Sina Queyras’ My Ariel and Gillian Sze’s Panicle. It’s an honour to be included in this company. There were so many good poetry books under consideration this year.

On my author page at Brick Books, I respond to the following questions: When did you start writing? Why do you write? Has this changed over time? Who are some of your favourite writers? And what do you draw from their work? Explain a particular poem of yours from a Brick Books publication.

Here’s to fresh starts, clearing the decks,making it new, forgiving debts. Last yearwas grim. All bets were off. Needles and pinsand sink or swim. Grist for the mill and miseryloves company, a bitter pill, a monkey-wrench in the machinery. Tooth and nail anda leap in the dark. When it rains it pours. Listen,here’s to fresh starts.